Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:27:56 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions) Subject: Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape Message-ID: <9507261427.AA08221@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com> References: <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com>
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<<On Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:35:45 -0500 (CDT), Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> said: > I have encountered a problem trying to install a system with the > 2.0.5-0622-SNAP from an Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (connected to > a BusLogic BT-747S SCSI controller). It gets to the point where > it is trying to extract data from the tape and then fails with the > message: > st0: 10240-byte record too big 8mm tapes can be written with either fixed or variable block size; it seems likely to me that the driver is using the wrong one for your tape. The SCSI mavens should probably have more to say about this. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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